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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 2:16 pm ET
Sudan needs to redouble efforts to register voters ahead of its first elections in 24 years, international observers have said, amid denunciations of "irregularities" and even calls for a boycott.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 30, 2:46 pm ET
New York - Sudan's warring parties have begun a new round of talks, but they lack conviction for an agreement in the six-year conflict, a UN official said Monday. The talks in Doha were attended by representatives from all communities in Darfur, the ...
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J Weekly - Thu Dec 3, 6:21 pm ET
To mark the Nov. 20 anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, 220 clergy representing five Christian and four Jewish denominations signed a petition urging President Barack Obama to bring about the arrest of Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and bring him to a Nuremberg trial of his own.
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Strategy Page - Fri Dec 4, 5:17 am ET
December 4, 2009: The Nuba Mountains lie in central Sudan, which puts the territory along a fault line between the national government (north Sudan) and the Government of South Sudan (GOSS, south Sudan).
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Miami Herald - Wed Dec 2, 6:00 pm ET
Armed with a new law, military prosecutors sought Wednesday to expand the war crimes case against an accused Osama bin Laden bodyguard to cover the years of the Clinton administration.
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Worldwide Faith News - Mon Nov 30, 3:04 pm ET
We, the Provincial Standing Committee of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS), met in Rumbek, Lakes State between 23rd and 27th November 2009, at the generous hospitality of the Diocese of Rumbek and the Government of Lakes State. We wish to give our heartfelt thanks to the Rt. Rev. Alapayo Manyang Kuctiel, Bishop of Rumbek, and H.E. Lt. Gen. Daniel Awet Akot, Governor of Lakes State, for ...
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Xavier University - Tue Dec 1, 10:39 pm ET
Two Xavier University faculty members will speak on a panel that will address the link between unethical business practices and global atrocities, including the genocide in Darfur.
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The Lantern - Wed Dec 2, 8:02 pm ET
Two refugees who managed to escape from a ravaged village torn apart by the Sudanese civil war in 1987 are graduating from Ohio State this month.
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United Nations - Mon Nov 30, 3:46 pm ET
“Among the Mission’s mandated activities, and among the efforts of the UN in Darfur, none is as important as those aimed at achieving a comprehensive political solution to end Darfur’s marginalization and enable its rightful representation in the national political process”, Edmond Mulet, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council today.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Mon Nov 30, 3:10 pm ET
Nigerian soccer player Stephen Worgu, who was sentenced to 40 lashes in Sudan after being convicted of drunk driving, said on Monday he would move to Europe if he got a suitable offer.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 11:06 am ET
Discontented young Sudanese are campaigning for change in what will be for many the first multi-party elections in their lifetime, urging the opposition to unite against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 10:50 am ET
Discontent young Sudanese are campaigning for change in what will be for many the first multi-party elections in their lifetime, urging the opposition to unite against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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USA Today - Mon Nov 30, 12:41 pm ET
The United Nations asked Monday for $7.1 billion to pay for its humanitarian work around the world next year, with Sudan and its troubled Darfur region most in need and Afghanistan rising to second.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 4:19 pm ET
Khartoum's U.N. envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said on Monday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 7:50 pm ET
A judge in Guantanamo Bay's war crimes court has denied a request by military prosecutors to expand their case against a Sudanese detainee accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.